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VS2005 takes a long time to render Troy
12/6/2005 11:20:02 AM
sql server reporting services: Hi,

Hopefully someone with a bit of experience with Visual Studio 2005 and RS
can offer some advice.
I am using VS2005, sourcing a SQL2K database (but deploying to a SQL2k5 RS),
and am simply trying to do a select of about 800 records from one table (ie
no joins).

The report has only one grouping field - and in essence is overly simplistic
just to try and understand where my issue is.

When trying to preview the report, it seems to take for ever - the hard disk
starts flogging away, and processor usage increases - to the point where i
eventually stop the rendering of the report (have waited in excess of 15
minutes!!!).

I have managed to get results back if I restrict the results of the query to
one line - or even to 200 lines (however this takes about 5min).

Each time the hard disk goes nuts and processor usage increases.

Any ideas what is happening here? Is it a configuration setting that I am
overlooking, or something more sinister?

The report runs fine once it is deployed to the RS - so it is just something
with VS2005 - but what?

Thanks in advance for any assistance on this.

Troy
Re: VS2005 takes a long time to render Troy
12/6/2005 1:11:02 PM
Thanks Bruce - well that is what I figured also, but I can't believe that
returning even a small subset of data would blow out all my RAM and start
swapping out.
I have 512MB - which I know is pretty marginal in terms of a dev machine,
however in terms of dev with VS, reporting is all it is used for.
I take it then that there is no other setting which might cause this - ie if
it is pulling all the results of the table to the local machine and then
querying it - or something dumb like that?

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Re: VS2005 takes a long time to render Troy
12/6/2005 2:12:02 PM
Hi Bruce,

Just installed another 512 - so was sitting at 1gig total, and same
scenario....

Went into RS while waiting for the preview to render and raised the same
report - result back in 3 seconds.....

I am well lost now.....

Any thoughts?

Cheers
Troy

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Re: VS2005 takes a long time to render Bruce L-C [MVP]
12/6/2005 2:18:57 PM
How much memory does your development machine have. Seems to me like you
have run out of RAM and you are thrashing (swapping out to disk). I develop
in 2005 and so far have never seen this. I have a gig on my development
machine.


--
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services

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Re: VS2005 takes a long time to render Troy
12/6/2005 2:39:03 PM
Might try a reinstall and see whether shuffles anything around
Thanks for the thoughts though!
If anyone else has any other ideas - please let me know

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Re: VS2005 takes a long time to render Bruce L-C [MVP]
12/6/2005 3:37:58 PM
The preview tab is using the same code as the render for the server. Visual
Studio itself is pretty big. I bet if you even put in another 256 it would
make a big difference.


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Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services

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Re: VS2005 takes a long time to render Bruce L-C [MVP]
12/6/2005 4:21:05 PM
Isn't that just like reality to get in the way of a good theory. Very weird.
Sorry. I am out of ideas. This is very weird.


--
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services

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Re: VS2005 takes a long time to render Ronny Hansen
12/7/2005 3:21:34 PM
I would try starting performance monitor and check what the bottleneck is,
swap/RAM - CPU - or DISK I/O
And when you know which one is the problem, i would try to find the process
which is responsible..

// Ronny

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